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Early in his speech, Summers noted that women remain underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic and professional life—in part, he said, because many women with young children are unwilling or unable to put in the 80-hour work-weeks needed to succeed in those fields...
Post-civil rights America likes to think of itself as rising up by its bootstraps, Louie said in a recent interview. And the “model-minority myth”—the idea that Asian Americans can succeed in the United States regardless of their background—only propagates the idea that class and race doesn’t matter...
...that the procedure is legal it is unlikely that many states would succeed in passing outright bans. According to exit polls, only 16 percent of voters believe that abortion should be “always illegal,” and only 26 percent think it should be “mostly illegal.” Even among those in the latter category a large amount of flexibility exists. Just as pro-choice doesn’t necessarily mean pro-abortion, pro-life doesn’t have to mean categorical opposition to all pregnancy termination. A few of the states...
...make up for the Faculty’s reluctance to take on increased teaching duties, some have proposed allowing professors to teach fewer fall and spring courses in exchange for a predetermined number of January sessions. While such a solution may succeed in filling up the J-Term course catalogue, it does so at a cost—by depleting the catalogue elsewhere. Students already frustrated by the instability of course offerings which fluctuate with which professors go on leave will be further disheartened to learn that their favorite members of the Faculty will be teaching term-time courses even...
...only way an additional term will succeed in January is if the courses and opportunities are so inspiring that both Faculty and students are actually excited about forgoing additional vacation to take a month-long course. It does not matter how interdisciplinary or unusual a seminar is, if everybody’s time is better spent taking the month of January off for rest and recovery, instituting a J-Term for the benefit of a few—and to the chagrin of many—is simply foolish...